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...toughest position yet against South Africa's racial policies. Late in the week the House of Representatives voted 380 to 48 for a package of economic sanctions to be imposed against South Africa, but the Senate delayed action until September after opponents of the bill threatened a filibuster to defeat...
...Estenssoro, who has been elected President three times before, will need all his political skills to defeat an even tougher opponent: Bolivia's ravaged economy. La Paz business groups estimate that the country's annual inflation rate will reach 30,000% this year. One of the new President's first acts was to announce an austerity program that included devaluation of the peso and renegotiation of the country's $4.8 billion foreign debt. ITALY The Mafia's Double Strike...
...nothing did Ted Turner earn the nickname Captain Courageous in his sailing days. As skipper of the yacht Courageous, which won the 1977 America's Cup, he had a knack for snatching victory from sure defeat. In the equally competitive and treacherous world of business, the cable-TV king showed his spunk and resilience once again last week. Just as Turner admitted that his quixotic attempt to take over CBS had capsized, he announced two bold new ventures for the burgeoning Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). The Atlanta-based company (1984 revenues: $282 million) will buy the venerable MGM/UA company...
...demolished courtyard homes. Rooms are decorated with Manchurian, Mongolian and Tibetan antiques, and each has a private porch. The Tiger Bar provides the perfect setting for cigars and cognac, while the restaurant offers cuisine inspired by Genghis Khan, whom the menu quotes: "The greatest pleasure in life is to defeat your enemy, then ride his horses, drink his wine, eat his food, and sleep with his women." Beijing's new business warriors may be inclined to agree...
Frustrated golfers, take heart! Mayo Clinic scientists are chipping away at the mysterious root of the yips--those involuntary twitches of the hand or wrist that defeat putts and crush spirits. A new study suggests that the yips are a task-specific movement disorder, like writer's or musician's cramp. But, unfortunately, there's still no cure...